No meat and two veg
As the social mediaverse keeps discussing pros and cons of Gillette’s new ad, here comes PETA with the creepiest possible collection of men proudly waving their genitalia around in public …
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Radioactive mutant wolves of Chernobyl
Where would we be without tabloids to inform us about important scientific news? Scientists fear wolves living in Chernobyl’s radioactive forbidden zone may be spreading mutant genes across Europe. The …
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“We require deep transformations of our economies and societies”, Part 3
Once you see it once, you start seeing it everywhere: New York City’s incoming socialist congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, says there will only be benefits, and no costs, to passing a …
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“We require deep transformations of our economies and societies”, Part 2
An apt follow up to my blog post yesterday about political activists using the climate change issue as an excuse and a cover to push for a radical transformation of our …
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“We require deep transformations of our economies and societies”
Earlier this year I blogged about the important distinction between supporters and activists. When we look at left-wing political, social, economic and other causes and movements we need to distinguish …
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Let them eat carbon
I’m glad that I got the chance to walk down Avenue des Champs-Elysees from Arc de Triomphe towards Louvre when doing so did not mean getting gassed by the police …
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Low CO2 killed the megafauna star
As with the present day fauna and flora extinctions, humans have been traditionally blamed for the extinction events over the past several tens of thousands of years. Maybe not so …
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America has more witches than Presbyterians
Salem, we have a problem: A report in the Christian Post contends that the number of witches (and Wiccans) has dramatically increased since the 1990s, to the degree that there may be …
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Climate change not killing polar bears fast enough
No matter how much CO2 we pump into the atmosphere, the big white bastards simply aren’t starving and drowning fast enough: There are too many polar bears in parts of …
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Big Trouble in Little Wentworth
While the counting is close and will take another few days, it’s still more likely than not that the woke independent Dr Kerryn Phelps will narrowly win the seat vacated …
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Of course it’s all about money
An undiplomatic incident in a Canberra restaurant: Environment Minister Melissa Price has been accused of offending a key Pacific leader by declaring the region was “always” seeking cash from Australia, …
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Virgin on the ridiculous
It’s pretty rich for a private jet-setting celebrity to lecture the plebs about climate change. It’s pretty rich squared for a celebrity billionaire who owns airlines: Billionaire Sir Richard Branson has likened …
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It’s always sunny in Chernobyl
The progress report is glowing: Ukraine launched Friday a park of photovoltaic panels at the former Chernobyl power plant as the country seeks to use solar power to give the …
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Your feel-good story of the day…
…involves goats, of course. Also, a useful reminder that despite the politics working very hard the past few years to convince us, the rest of the world can still be …
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Blowing up all over Iceland
Just over a year ago, I was walking in the shadow of one of Iceland’s largest and most unsettled volcanoes. Katla – kettle or cauldron in Icelandic – looms like …
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Welcome to the greener planet
Good news for the small “g” greens; big “g” Greens, not so much: From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 …
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Sinking funds, not sinking islands
Humouring the neighbourhood with taxpayers’ money: Australia will be expected to contribute to a new $US1.5 billion Pacific Resilience Facility to help island nations adapt to the impacts of rising …
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Starving people to save them from starving
Policy-making, including in the area of environment (particularly in the area of environment) requires less emotion and more cost-benefit analysis, writes the “skeptical environmentalist” Bjorn Lomborg: When a “solution” to …
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On San Francisco Shit Patrol
The progressives love the frisson of imagining dystopias where a few plutocrats enjoy their own private paradise while the masses are condemned to a Hobbesian life of squalor, poverty, violence …
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Crisis of the 21st Century
In a long and often bloody and tumultuous history of the Roman Empire, there are few periods like what has become known among scholars as the Crisis of the Third …
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